This a maintenance release of Thunder.
The main focus is fixing a variety of deployment and installation related issues, and adding initial support for the recently released Spark 1.4. Thunder has not been extensively used alongside Spark 1.4, but with this release all core functionality has been verified.
Changes and Bug Fixes
- Fix launching error when starting Thunder with Spark 1.4 (addresses #201)
- Fix EC2 deployment with Spark 1.4
- More informative errors for handling import errors on startup
- Remove pylab when starting notebooks on EC2
- Improved dependency handling on EC2
- Updated documentation for factorization methods
Contributions
- Davis Bennet (@d-v-b): doc improvements
- Andrew Giessel (@andrewgiessel): EC2 deployment
- Jeremy Freeman (@freeman-lab): varius bug fixes
If you have any questions come chat with us, and stay tuned for Thunder 0.6.0 in the near future.